Community Workshops & Trainings
CAALN’s sustainability goals include community workshops and trainings where East African Leadership Team members and local TAPTA participants conduct workshops based on TAPTA trainings and its train-the-trainer model. Community workshops bring together teachers, social workers, medical professionals, visual artists, dancers, and others to enhance the training skills of the facilitators and introduce the creative arts therapies to community workers. Selected participants may also participate in the TAPTA trip.
CAALN has held three community workshops since its inception: in Kampala, Uganda; Bagamoyo, Tanzania; and the Kibera Slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Over 50 participants have taken what they’ve learned into their communities, integrating the therapeutic arts into their practices. These workshops exponentially increase the impact of TAPTA in the region.
Therapeutic Arts Program Grants
CAALN provides small grants to support therapeutic arts projects implemented by applicants who have previously participated in the Therapeutic Arts Paraprofessional Training in Africa (TAPTA) program. Examples of grants include:
A therapeutic drama program for girls in Tanzania that focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights education and addressed issues like sexual assault and teenage pregnancy.
A therapeutic arts program for displaced youth in a Uganda refugee settlement, providing expressive arts, dance, folk storytelling, music, drama, and psychoeducation to improve social-emotional and psychological wellbeing
A therapeutic visual art program that addressed the emotional needs of adolescent orphans in Tanzania who have been abandoned due to their own or their parents’ AIDS diagnoses.
A creative journaling project in a Tanzania hospital for children with a cancer diagnosis.